14,373 Quotes About Art

There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.

I think comedy as an art involves the audience as a participant as much as is involves the artist.

A novel is no different than graffiti in a bathroom stall, it's just more pretentious.

The morality of art consists, for everyone, in the side that flatters its own interests. People do not like literature.

Work on." Work as if every time you started with and every time you finish.

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.

Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.

That's because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear - the exact sort of lines and proportions that connect up with latent instincts or hereditary memories of fright, and the proper colour contrasts and lighting effects to stir the dormant sense of strangeness.

All life is death. You don't fool yourself about this anymore. You slash at the perfect canvas with strokes of paint and replace the perfect picture of your imagination with the reality of what you are capable of. From death, and sorrow, and compromise, you create. This is what it means, you finally realize, to be alive. ("The Chambered Fruit")